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About Devart

Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software.

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 7.2.0. This month’s release includes a new feature that completely implements code masks for WBS code definition. It always incorporates a number of bug fixes that further improves the overall functionality of the API. This month’s release provides complete support for code mask in WBS code definition. Earlier, there were many fields to be read and written which is now completed. This feature allows the API to read the code mask associated with the WBS code definitions and write these when saving to an output MPP. This has been achieved by introducing a new public property, WBSCodeDefinition, to the API’s Project class. This month’s release brings further improvement to the API’s data rendering capabilities. Previous versions supported rendering task links across single pages only. This has been now enhanced so that task links such as FS, SS, FF, and SF are rendered across horizontal as well as vertical pages. his month’s release also fixes a number of bugs and exceptions that were reported by our customers. These include, recalculation errors while calculating values of max. units, w.comp and overallocations, rendering collapsed sub tasks as expanded, unassigned resource rendered at the top, Text alignment disturbance and many more. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

Implement FF, SF links rendering across vertical pages

Implement FS, SS links rendering across vertical pages

Implement links rendering across horizontal pages

Implement WBS code definition writing to mpp

Implement WBS code definition writing to xml

Implement WBS code definition reading from mpp and xml

Support WBS code fields reading and writing.

Exception is resolved while loading the license if culture uses the UmAlQuraCalendar

Provide link arrows between tasks across the pages while MPP->PDF conversion

MPP to PDF always renders collapsed sub tasks in expanded form

Image added in "i" column is fixd

Column text color changes from Black to Red is now fixed

Difference in value of "Max Units" Columns is fixed

Images missing in "i" column is fixed

%W.Comp values differ while MPP to PDF conversion is now fixed

Text alignment is disturbed in MPP to PDF conversion is now fixed

MPP to PDF: Tasks shown as Overallocated is now fixd

MPP to PDF: UnAssigned Resource Rendered at the top is now fixed

Value Mismatch for Column Max. Units is now fixed

WBS values missing in the output MPP is now fiixed

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET
Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications. More about Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java &.NET 14.10.0. This month’s release contains over 106 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. Some of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release includes, improved DocumentBuilder to handle mixed LTR/RTL text, improved breaking of floating tables in layout, improved custom tab stop beyond line ending, implemented new features and effects for DrawingML rendering, added the LoadOptions.WebRequestTimeout property and several others. We have now added hte LoadOptions.WebRequestTimeout option. Previously, HTML import tried to load images using WebRequest with default time out 100000ms which sometimes failed for every image with the error ‘Unable to connect to the remote server’ exception. In earlier versions when Aspose.Words encountered DrawingML text box, it rendered fallback VML Shape textbox. That is why rotation and some other formatting properties were lost. In the new version of Aspose.Words, it renders true DrawingML textboxes. Also, to be able to render DrawingML textboxes, DmlRenderingMode.DrawingML must be set. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

Improved DocumentBuilder to handle mixed LTR/RTL text

Improved breaking of floating tables in layout

Improved custom tab stop beyond line ending

Implemented new features and effects in DrawingML rendering

Added LoadOptions.WebRequestTimeout property

Tables are truncated from the end of PDF pages

Logos are misplaced after MHTML to PDF or any other format

A Table moves down to the page which causes a few more layout issues in PDF

A Page Break is not preserved during open/save a DOCX

A table is rendered at the end of previous page in PDF

ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = true does not work

Document.UpdateFields does not update TOC field correctly

Background image is rendered incorrectly after conversion from ODT to Pdf

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Java 9.5.2. This new release provides several new and exciting features, and also improves already supported features to optimize them and give better results. PDF to EPUB conversion is supported in Aspose.Pdf for .NET for a while and in order to make the .NEt and Java versions of the software identical in terms of features, we recently ported the PDF to EPUB conversion feature to Aspose.Pdf for Java. Please visit the following link for further details on converting PDF to EPUB format. Performance is one of the key improvement factors in this release and during our various tests, we have ensured that the APIs performance is better than in previous versions. Before the release, the API has undergone a series of load tests to ensure that it works with equal throughput under stress conditions (that is, while generating and manipulating large size documents). As well as the new features mentioned above, this version includes fixes related to converting PDF to SVG, HTML, DOC and image formats, as well as various other fixes. Some important new and improved features included in this release are given below

PDF to EPUB support

Processing time increased with Aspose.Pdf for Java 9.3.1

Problems with getting an information from tagged pdf is fixed

PDF to PNG - Images missing in resultant PNG is resolved

PDF to Image - Logo in resultant file is now corrected

PDF to Image: Highlight annotation loses the transparency is fixed

Using PdfFileMend.SetInputStream(), corrupts the output file is fixed

Unable to find font and IllegalStateException exception is resolved

PDF to PNG - Highlighted text is now visible

PDF to HTML: text missing issue is resolved

PDF to DOC: URL rendering issue is resolved

XPS to PDF: Image rendering issue is resolved

Loading Image via URL is fixed and now working fine

HTML to PDF – Exception is resolved during conversion

PDF to SVG conversion, exception is resolvd

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

"With Studio Enterprise, web developers will value that our development team added data virtualization for better loading performance, an AngularJS template for MVC, and a new set of JavaScript / HTML5 controls," said Dan Beall, product marketing manager at ComponentOne.

For developers looking to quickly get started with a single page application using AngularJS and Bootstrap, the new template within Studio Enterprise 2014 v3 comes pre-populated with the JavaScript controls found in Wijmo 5. "With our new enhanced templates developers will be able to rapidly develop MVC applications with interfaces richer than Web Forms," said Beall.

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) provides an array of tools and services; the Reports for WinForms product which is part of Studio Enterprise has newly added support for viewing SSRS reports. "With our full-featured print preview component (C1PrintPreview) developers are able to pass parameters, render and view SSRS reports," said Beall. "For others looking to bring the power of SQL Server Reporting Services to Windows Store apps, there is also a new SSRS Viewer for WinRT XAML. The new WinRT SSRS Viewer control is an easy way to embed SSRS reports directly into applications."

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a tool ComponentOne has had as an offering for years. What is new in this release is the product has been extended to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and cube support has been added. ComponentOne OLAP (C1Olap) allows users to connect to OLAP data sources from Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services. "With just a few lines of code, C1Olap users can build a multi-dimensional pivot table that slices and dices the dimensions, and measures Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) present in the OLAP cube," said Beall.

Rounding out the top highlights of the Studio Enterprise v3 release, are new ASP.NET Maps and a ASP.NET TreeMap. The new Maps for ASP.NET Wijmo allows users to visualize geographical data on a map and the new TreeMap for ASP.NET Wijmo lets users analyze data in new ways with a tiled tree map chart.

Announced as a Beta in the preceding release of Studio Enterprise, was the company’s support for Universal apps in their WinRT XAML offering. Now officially released to the web, users may use a single set of controls to build Universal Windows apps. "Developers can now easily share code and XAML across their Windows Store and Windows Phone apps," said Beall. "The suite contains UI controls for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps."

Availability
ComponentOne offers no-charge, 30-day trials of Studio Enterprise which may be downloaded at www.componentone.com/Downloads. Online visitors may also access tutorials, forums, documentation, and videos as part of the ComponentOne experience.

About GrapeCity
Founded in 1980, GrapeCity is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, and one of the world’s largest providers of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. For close to 30 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services, and solutions. For more company information, visit the ComponentOne division website at http://www.componentone.com.

dbForge Data Compare for SQL Server is a tool to compare and sync data of SQL Server databases. Analyze data differences in a well-designed user interface and synchronize comparison results in a convenient wizard.

dbForge Query Builder for SQL Server is a tool for quick creation of queries to SQL Server databases and extended data management. The main component of Query Builder is a visual diagram where a user can "draw" a query.

About Devart

Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software.

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 4.7.0. This release includes some important enhancements such as Case-sensitive email filtering in email clients, setting timezone on Exchange task, Improved rendering options to MHTML, move items on Exchange Server, Provision of body compression, creating TNEF MailMessage from MapiMessage and severla bug fixes as well. The API’s email clients – IMAP, POP3 and EWS – already provide the capability to retrieve emails from servers based on filter criteria. This feature has been further improved by case-sensitive filtering for all these clients. The Exchange Web Service (EWS) client offered by Aspose.Email provides the capability of working with Exchange tasks. This month’s release further improves this functionality by specifying the time zone for the client as well as the Exchange task. Aspose.Email can render emails to MHTML format. This month’s release further improves this functionality by providing the capability of writing the To, From, CC and BCC fields to the output. This enables developers to control the output as per requirements during conversion of email messages to MHTML. This month’s release brings further improvements to the functionality of moving email messages from one folder to another folder. The earlier versions of the Aspose.Email API required users to manually write the exact destination folder URI for such purpose. Now, this operation requires only the source message URI and destination folder URI statement. Aspose.Email now makes it possible to reduce the message size by using RTF body compression. This allows developers to create a smaller size PST, though at the cost of speed. If speed is desired, then set the UseBodyCompression property to false to turn compression off. Outlook MSG files sometimes contain information such as tables and text styles that may get disturbed when converted to EML. Creating TNEF messages from such MSG files allows developers to retain the formatting and even sending such messages via the email clients. The InterpretAsTnef property is used to achieve this. This month’s release also fixes a number of bugs that were reported with our last month’s version. Fixing these further improves the overall functionality of the API. The main bug fixes, new & improved features added in this release are listed below

This feature would allow to create TNEF MailMessage from MapiMessage and send messages by mail clients

Summary: A 100% free .NET PowerPoint API– Free Spire.Presentation for .NET which enables developers to operate PowerPoint documents from any .NET platforms now adds a new feature to support converting presentation slides into XPS in C# and VB.NET.

Hong Kong, Nov 14, 2014, E-iceblue-Your Office Devement Master– releases a new pack version of Spire.Presentation for .NET v2.1.7. It is a totally free, independent and professional.NET library which enables developers to create, read, write, modify, print and convert PowerPoint® documents in C# and VB.NET easily.
Spire.Presentation supports working with PPT, PPS, PPTX and PPSX presentation formats. Developers can export presentation slides to PDF, image (Bitmap, JPG, PNG, EMF, TIFF, GIF and WMF) and XPS. It provides functions such as managing text, image, shapes, tables, animations, audio and video on slides. It also supports SmartArt shape, MSO Charts components and presentation printing.
As an independent PowerPoint .NET component, Spire.Presentation doesn't need Microsoft PowerPoint installed on the machine. And it is compatible with other .NET applications.

Summary of Free Spire.Presentation functions

Convert presentation slides to image, PDF and XPS format.
Create, access, copy, edit, delete slides from scratch and add created slides to presentations.
Working with shapes like lines, rectangles, ellipses and polylines on slides
Insert animation effects to slides and shapes
Insert hyperlink to the shapes and text
Working with pictures, audios, videos in the presentation slide
Working with tables and charts
Add text and handle text formatting
Protect and encrypt presentation slides

Check here for detailed information:
http://www.e-iceblue.com/Introduce/free-presentation-component.html
About e-iceblue
E-iceblue Co., Ltd. is a vendor of .NET, Silverlight and WPF development components. The goal of e-iceblue is always to offer high-quality components for reading and writing different formats of office files.
Contact US:
http://www.e-iceblue.com/Misc/maillist.html

Technical tutorial will examine how to build and deploy portable application services using SUSE Studio, WSO2 open source middleware, and Amazon EC2
Mountain View, CA – November 12, 2014 – WSO2 today announced that WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad will present a technical tutorial session at SUSECon 2014 that explores best practices for rapidly building a standardized application stack environment. WSO2 is a Silver Sponsor of SUSECon 2014, which will run November 17-21, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida.

Building a PaaS Tutorial
The conference technical tutorial will begin by discussing how organizations can strengthen cloud programs by delivering platform as a service (PaaS) to application teams. It then will examine how developers can assemble, build and deploy portable application services instead of platform silos using SUSE Studio, WSO2 open source middleware, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Additionally, the session will demonstrate how to rapidly build standardized application stack environments and offer a policy compliant PaaS to application project teams.

The tutorial, “Build Platform as a Service (PaaS) with SUSE Studio, WSO2 Middleware, and EC2,” will be held 3:15–4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 in Room Magnolia C at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress.

About the Presenter
Chris Haddad is vice president of platform evangelism at WSO2. He works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives, as well as WSO2's engineering team, to increase adoption of WSO2 open source technology, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors on adoption strategies, architecture, product selection, governance, and organizational alignment.

Integrated Open Source Approach to the Connected Business
The WSO2 booth at SUSECon 2014 will have experts available to discuss the synergistic, integrated approach of WSO2’s 100% open source platforms in addressing the technology demands of competing in a connected world, including the cloud, API management, big data analytics, the management and security of mobile and Internet of Things devices, and DevOps, to name a few. Among the WSO2 solutions are products from the comprehensive WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform, WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager, WSO2 Private PaaS, the WSO2 App Factory cloud-enabled DevOps platform, and WSO2 Public Cloud platforms.

Significantly, all WSO2 solutions are built on the same fully componentized, OSGI-compliant code base. As a result, developers can easily deploy and customize any of these WSO2 products and the 175-plus components on which they are comprised, providing greater flexibility and agility to meet changing enterprise demands. In addition to WSO2 cloud platforms, all WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware products also are fully multitenant and cloud-ready. This means IT professionals can write an application once and deploy it on the same middleware on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

About SUSECon 2014
SUSE’s annual global conference SUSECon, is essential to users to learn about the latest open source developments from SUSE, including what’s new in enterprise Linux, cloud computing, big data, server management and integrated systems. SUSECon 2014 will focus on "always open" technology, including open source technologies such as cloud computing, big data and Linux-based data center platforms for businesses, customers and partners. This year, the conference will feature keynotes by SUSE and partner executives, along with technical sessions, technology showcases and opportunities to interact with other open source enterprise users and providers. For more information, visit http://www.susecon.com.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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Skali Group creates a revolutionary new cloud service by partnering with leading multi-language cloud provider Jelastic.

Jelastic, Inc., the first company that combined Unlimited PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) in one solution, today announced their partnership with Skali Group, an enterprise web specialist and the largest commercial open source company in South East Asia. The newly launched SkaliCloud+ solution, powered by Jelastic, offers high cost savings of up to 70 percent, thus allowing customers to focus their financial resources on a more efficient cloud solution, without having to compromise on their IT needs.

SkaliCloud+, developed by SKALI and Jelastic, is a flexible, customizable, and ready to use solution using proven world-class technologies that are tailored to the customers’ changing needs.

“Being the first Public Cloud provider in the region and with more than 17 years of experience in project deliveries, SKALI has reaped the benefits of understanding the customers better,” said Tengku Farith Rithauddeen, Group CEO of SKALI.

He added, “Customers would normally want their IT solutions fast as the market would not wait for them, and at the same time they also need to save costs so that the money can be used for other equally important matters such as enhancing their sales team or put up a new manufacturing line. Thus, we have come out with a turnkey IT solution that is immediately ready, can be customized and is flexible according to clients’ request, and more importantly, offering them an amazing 70 per cent cost saving by doing away with the initial investments for infrastructures, software and hardware.”

Unlike the other cloud providers which offer computing power on hardware, SkaliCloud+ offers utility only charges, resulting in offering savings not only on computing power, but also on hardware, infrastructure and software.

“Clients would only pay as they go for their usage without having any fixed charges. Known as PAYU (Pay As You Use), this model enables customers to enjoy the full-fledged benefits of Cloud set-up with zero capital expenditure,” said Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic.

A report released by Gartner Inc. in early April this year had indicated that Malaysia’s total information technology (IT) spending is forecasted to grow by 7.4 per cent to hit RM68 billion this year as more companies are expected to return to IT spending to support business growth.

However, there is also a greater substitution towards lower cost and more basic devices than we have seen in prior years, the report said.

Amongst the reputable clients that are currently utilizing the benefits of SKALI’s Cloud Computing are those in the education industries, oil and gas, GLCs, multinational companies, government agencies and many others.

Jelastic provides the only all-inclusive private cloud solution that integrates PaaS and IaaS, and is specifically built for enterprises. Easily configured and managed, Jelastic provides a turnkey private cloud that works for innovative and legacy applications, without coding to proprietary APIs.

Company:

About SKALI

SKALI is an enterprise web specialist and the largest commercial open source company in South East Asia with success stories in many Private Enterprise, SMEs and Government IT projects. Since operations started in 1997, SKALI has been pushing the boundaries on innovative solutions and professional services concentrating on the area of e-Business, e-Government ICT Infrastructure, Solutions and Services. SKALI is a Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status company and is acknowledged as one of the most trusted brands in the country. Skali has a growing footprint in ASEAN and Middle Eastern Countries.

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc. provides enterprise software that re-defines the economics of cloud deployment and management. Jelastic is the first company to deliver a Platform-as-Infrastructure solution, combining the ease of use (developer’s productivity) of PaaS and the flexibility (agility) of IaaS within a single platform, for a fraction of the cost of existing virtualized environments. Jelastic is a venture-backed enterprise software company that enables enterprises, OEMs, integrators and hosting service providers to unleash the full potential of the cloud to generate superior ROI and efficiencies. For more information or to start a free, two-week trial, visit us at www.jelastic.com.

Mobile business app ecosystem is facing increasing challenges nowadays including fast-growing demand for PC/internet-like mobile experience, exponential traffic growth and the urgent need to capitalize on new sources of revenue. At Apps World 2014 BAMBOOAPPS will present a range of innovative mobile tailored solutions that will help enterprises and start-ups to overcome these challenges and leverage their strengths. The company´s core business activities are:

Mobile app development: native vs cross-platform
Mobile websites development (responsive web design)
App Store Optimisation (name, keywords, pre-release, review resources, store reviews)
Mobile website SEO
Product improvement (maintenance)
"Today´s consumers are addicted to connectivity and speed. The ongoing expansion of the mobile applications is coupled with the booming consumers´ demand for more data, more convenience, more capabilities. To reach the biggest addressable audience, each brand must be translated into mobile and support thousands of device types. That´s why business application development across multiple platforms and device operating systems will be the cornerstone of long-term competitiveness in global market", says the Head of Mobile Development Department Igor Ponikarchik.

BAMBOOAPPS is seeking for new project opportunities in EU, US, Asia and invites those who are interested to set up a meeting during the event.

Links

Company website: http://bambooapps.eu

About BAMBOOAPPS

BAMBOOAPPS is award-winning mobile application development company, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. BAMBOOAPPS provides mobile tailored services to help companies achieve their business and marketing objectives. The company offers an affordable and flexible mobile development, consulting and promotion service without committing clients to a long-term contract. Creating an integrated experience across digital platforms including app and mobile web the company helps brands to connect with users.

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 4.5.0. This release brings a number of fixes and enhancements that also improve performance of the API. A connection point on a shape can be used to connect with other shapes. After the manipulation of a Visio shapes, we were not able to move sub shapes along with connection points. It is now fixed. Similarly, there is a list of other defects, those we have fixed in this release. The problem was that a few customers reported Visio file samples which they exported to PDF or thumbnail formats. The API was bringing whitespace under or besides the actual figure. In this release, we have fixed most of these types of issues. During the export of Visio files to PDF or HTML formats, the Aspose.Diagram API was placing a few additional shapes like moustache, half circle and half circle with black color fill. It was the case with few sample Visio drawings. There was no presence of these shapes in the source Visio drawings. This new version brings fixes to reported error messages and includes various other enhancements. some of the bug fixes are Error in elements when loading VSD drawing, ArgumenetException when saving to the JPG format after SetWidth method call, Input string format error when converting VDX drawing in PDF format, Error in element VisioDocument when loading a VSD diagram and more. This release also increases the layout perfections when rendering the Visio diagram to various other supported formats. These perfections were fruitful in calculating the accurate height / width of the page or shape of the Visio drawings. There have been a few numbers of defects already reported. Here is the list of important bugs fixes in the new version.

VSD to PDF conversion, a big space before the actual drawing

The sub shape connectors do not move along with their source points

Error in elements when loading VSD drawing

Action cell is not properly preview able in the MS Office Visio 2013

VSDX to PDF conversion, misplace drawing and white area around the drawing

VSD to PDF conversion, incorrect page number sequence

The shape is cutoff when saving to the VDX format

VSD to PDF export, extra moustache type of shape appears in the center

VSD to HTML export, extra moustache type of shape appears in the center

Extra black shapes are generated while converting VSD to PDF format

The shape's properties are not being added properly

VSD to PDF conversion, incorrect page height

VSD to PDF conversion, incorrect page width

ArgumenetException when saving to the JPG format after SetWidth method call

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure .NET alternate for MS Visio Object Model.It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files on ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio docs on a server. Developer can open files & manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.

Devart announces the release of dbForge Studio for SQL Server, v4.0. The new version introduces new general features:

T-SQL Code Analyzer

T-SQL Code Analyzer is a code analyzing utility that can identify possible defects and check T-SQL code for compliance with best practices. To fine tune the T-SQL analysis process you can create code analysis profiles and edit them according to your needs.

While comparing database schemas you can manually connect objects that that do not have identical names to map them. Objects mapping even allows you to compare tables with different names in different database types.

Server Events Profiler

SQL Server Profiler is a GUI to SQL Trace for monitoring an instance of the SQL Server Engine. By using SQL Server Profiler you can:
- Create a trace
- Watch the trace results as the trace runs
- Store the trace results in a table
- Start, stop, pause, and modify the trace results as necessary
The events are saved in a trace file that can later be analyzed or used to replay a specific series of steps when trying to diagnose a problem.

Improved Performance

The application performance has been significantly improved. Now it supports Windows 10 and works faster when executing a query, opening a table, designing a diagram, and building a query in the Query Builder.

dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting and analysis. The tool will help SQL developers to manage databases, speed up routine tasks, as well, as to make complex database changes.

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 7.2.0. This month’s release includes the same enhancements and bug fixes that were part of the .NET version. It includes rendering enhancements as well as support for WBS Code Definitions reading/writing. Developers may also share their feedback with us over Aspose.tasks forum. This month’s release provides the support for code mask in WBS code definition. It allows reading the code mask associated with the WBS code definitions and writes these while saving to output MPP. The WBSCodeDefinition property (of the Project class) is used for this purpose. Aspose.Tasks for Java now provides improved project data rendering where task links such as FS, SS, FF and SF are rendered across horizontal as well as vertical pages. Earlier, this was limited to rendering the same across single pages only. This month’s release also includes a number of bug fixes related to various functionalities of the API, such as missing values while rendering project data, wrong WBS, Max. Units and W.Comp values calculation, differences in calculated and output values and text alignment issues while rendering project data. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

Implement WBS code definition reading from mpp and xml

Support WBS code fields reading and writing.

Implement FF, SF links rendering across vertical pages

Implement FS, SS links rendering across vertical pages

Implement links rendering across horizontal pages

Implement WBS code definition writing to mpp

Implement WBS code definition writing to xml

Provide link arrows between tasks across the pages while MPP to PDF conversion

Fixed: MPP to PDF always renders collapsed sub tasks in expanded form

Image added in "i" column

Column text color changes from Black to Red is now fixed

Difference in value of "Max Units" Columns is now resolved

Images missing in "i" column is now fixed

%W.Comp values differ while MPP to PDF conversion is fixed

Text alignment disturbance issue is resolved in MPP to PDF conversion

MPP to PDF: Tasks shown as Overallocated

MPP to PDF: UnAssigned Resource Rendered at the top

Value Mismatch for Column Max. Units is now fixed

WBS values missing in the output MPP

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

PostSharp Technologies, makers of advanced software development tools, announced the availability of PostSharp 4, a 100% compatible extension to C# and VB that helps developers and architects to automate the implementation of design patterns by encapsulating them into reusable components.

With PostSharp 4, the company solves a tough problem: thread safety in large business applications.

"Object-oriented programming is an excellent paradigm for large business applications, but mainstream languages have not been designed with thread safety in mind," says Gael Fraiteur, PostSharp Technologies CEO. "Developers still address multithreading at a very low level of abstraction, using locks or events. This approach is fine when performance is critical, but it does not scale for large business applications where productivity is more important."

PostSharp 4 extends the C# and VB languages with the most common threading design patterns. By annotating their classes with attributes like [Immutable], [ThreadAffine] or [Actor], developers can tell the compiler what they want. PostSharp 4 verifies source code against the model and reports violations at build or run time instead of allowing for data races. This enables developers to write thread-safe code without an expert knowledge of multithreading.

In addition to multithreading, PostSharp 4 makes it almost effortless to implement undo/redo feature in desktop or mobile applications.

"Undo/redo is one of the most wanted features, but it is rarely implemented in business applications because of its high cost. We wanted to change that," stated Gael Fraiteur of PostSharp.

One of the benefits most cited by PostSharp customers is not only a smaller and more understandable code base, but also an increase in developer productivity. Statistical data collected from the customer feedback program suggest a 30% productivity improvement.

The development team at Gamesys, the market leader in the field of money gaming, experienced such time savings first hand.

"If we were able to continuously develop and operate several high volume games in production with such a small team, it was partly thanks to PostSharp," says Yan Cui, senior backend developer at Gamesys.

PostSharp Technologies is at the forefront of .NET developer tools and has already attracted 10% of Fortune 500 companies including BP Oil, Volkswagen, JP Morgan and Microsoft.

Availability and pricing

PostSharp exists in several editions with price ranging from 49$ to 749$ per developer. PostSharp Express provides the undo/redo and threading features for up to 10 classes per project free of charge.

Links

Company website: www.postsharp.net
Technical white paper: A Thread-Safe Extension to Object-Oriented Programming
Case study: PostSharp helped the social backend team at Gamesys achieve high efficiency

About PostSharp Technologies

PostSharp Technologies is committed to bringing innovations to developers in industry-leading companies by building tools that enable them to add new code functionality and maintainability, simplify architecture and reduce code duplication and application complexity. PostSharp Technologies maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic.

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 9.7.0. Aspose.Pdf for .NET supports the feature to add/update attachments inside PDF documents. It also offers the feature to create link annotations inside PDF files. The link can point to a page within the document, any other file placed on the system, a JavaScript link or some web location. However, the latest release also enables developers to create links to attachments already in the PDF file. HTML to PDF and PDF to HTML conversion are some of the main features that the development team are working to improve and in recent releases, we have made significant improvement to them. In the current release, we offer the new capability to set the output file dimensions when converting a PDF file to HTML format. The PdfPageEditor class present in the Aspose.Pdf.Facades namespace provides the feature to update/manipulate pages of PDF document. It also offers the feature to set/update page dimensions of input PDF file. In order to accomplish our requirement, we can first load the source PDF document into PdfPageEditor object, update page dimensions and then render the output in HTML format using HtmlSaveOptions class. Aspose.Pdf for .NET has been supporting conversion from PDF to PDF/A compliant documents and also offers the capability to validate a PDF file’s PDF/A compliance. In this release, we have added support for conversion of PDF to PDF/A_2a format. Therefore a new value PDF_A_2A is added to PdfFormat enumeration. Please try using the following code snippet to accomplish this requirement. Aspose.Pdf for .NET supports the feature to add table cell inside PDF file. While creating table inside PDF file, we can add text or images inside table cells. Furthermore, this API also offers the feature to convert SVG files to PDF format. So with a blend of both features, we can accomplish the requirement of loading SVG image and add it inside table cells. A PDF file consists of elements such as Text, Images, Attachments, Annotations, Hyperlinks, Tables etc. When adding Text string to PDF file, we may have a requirement to set formatting for text instance. The latest release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 9.7.0 offers the feature to set Underline formatting for TextFragment when adding to PDF file. Please try setting TextState.Underline property as true to accomplish this requirement. In case you need to add choice option to combo-box field in XFA form, then you need to update the XML template of the document so that the choice is added. Among the above stated new features/enhancements, there are numerous other features introduced in this release. We have also made fixes for issues reported in earlier releases. The list of important new and improved features are given below

To create internal link to already attached files

Ximage Save method ignores resolution parameter

PDF to HTML - set resultant file size (dimensions)

Support PDF to PDF/A-2A conversion

Use of Aspose.Pdf API in SQL SERVER CLR

FontStyles enumeration should have property to set formatting as Underline

Add SVG object to table cell

Grouping annotation is not supported using ImportAnnotationsFromXfdf

How to add choice option in combobox field

Pdf to text: space between text increased

XSL-FO border-width property

Tables resizing when converting from html to pdf

Image Generation from PDF is very slow

Bug in text extraction position

Line Break is not working in TextFragment

Replacing string overlaps existing text

Position issue of replaced text

HTML to PDF - Unicode text is not appearing properly

Annotation Pop Ups not displaying correctly on nuance pdf

Formatting lost while replace text using TextFragmentAbsorber

Problem using PdfFileMend

PDF to DOC/DOCX : Unexpected data reflects on console

Overlapping of text in when replacing URLs

Concatenation replace font and loses line feed

HTML to PDF - Text box not allowing more than 500 characters

XSL-FO - Table Header is not repeating over consecutive pages

System.OutOfMemoryException in PDF to PNG conversion

HTMl to PDF - unable to render HTML containing radio button to PDF

Watermark text stamp affecting the main body of a pdf page

PDF to TIFF: CCITT4 compression loses the blue text signatures/date

Unable to get Text from Header / Footer

PDF license setting time increased

Generated PDF table has absent column on second page

Document() method hangs

Pdf cuts off after running it through PdfPageEditor class

Image to PDF: multipage Tiff image is not rendering completely

PDF to Image: loses PolygonAnnotation

PDF to XLS - Columns are not being honored during conversion

PDF to Image: loses StrikeOutAnnotation in resultant image

Extended Rights feature is lost when manipulating document

PDF to HTML - Generate single HTML and save output in Stream

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose Newsletter for November 2014 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases of its JasperReports exporters, SQL Server rendering extensions, .NET, Java, SharePoint, Android components & REST APIs. It includes info about converting to & from PowerPoint presentations, introduced spam analysis to Aspose.Email for .NET & Java and improved project rendering. The video tutorial shows how to add animation to shapes using Aspose.Slides.

Converting to and from Microsoft PowerPoint presentations?

A lot of important information is presented and stored in Microsoft PowerPoint files. With Aspose.Slides for .NET, you can automate the creation of recurring presentations and integrate presentations into your company’s information flow. Convert slides to images or PDFs and share online. Work with charts and create customizable slide stacks. Aspose.Slides for .NET makes it easy to create, access, modify and convert presentations programmatically. Download free trial

Recent Aspose for Cloud Improvements

Aspose for Cloud, our suite of cloud based REST APIs, has seen a number of changes recently. As well as improving the platform and ensuring that the latest versions of the APIs are supported by our SDKs, we’ve added a number of new features for Aspose.Words for Cloud. Read more

Spam Analysis Introduced to Aspose.Email for .NET and Java

In response to customer requests, we’ve added spam analysis and filtering to Aspose.Email for .NET and Java, our email creation and management APIs. As well as adding spam analysis features, we’ve been working hard to reduce the size of PST files. Read more about Spam Analysis and email filtering.

Improved Project Rendering with Aspose.Tasks for .NET and Java

Aspose.Tasks for .NET and Java, our Microsoft Project APIs, allow you to create, manage and convert Microsoft Project files. Exporting views to other formats is critical to many of our users. The most recent releases extend the range of views the APIs support and give developers greater control over how elements are rendered. Find out more.

WSI uses Aspose.Cells for .NET to work with Microsoft Excel Files

WSI Xceptor is a leading-edge automation platform that scales across business problems and requirements. Much of the data stored by WSI’s clients is held in spreadsheets. They needed to be able to work with a range of file formats and versions without losing formatting. Aspose.Cells for .NET was the answer. Download the case study

Use Aspose.Slides for .NET to Add Animation to Shapes

Aspose.Slides for .NET allows developers to work with Microsoft PowerPoint slides, using the full range of features and functionality. Adding animation to a shape can help draw attention to it and keep the audience interested. We’ve created a short tutorial video that shows how to animate shapes with Aspose.Slides for .NET. Watch the video

Save Webpages to DOC with Aspose.Words for Cloud

Aspose.Words for Cloud lets developers work with Microsoft Word documents using a convenient REST API. A recent example deviced by our developers shows how to save a web page to a Microsoft Word document. The example shows code for C#, VB.NET and Java. Check out the code example

Extract an Attached File from OneNote Document with Aspose.Note for .NET

Microsoft OneNote allows users to take extensive notes, bringing together inputs and contributions from a range of sources. With Aspose.Note for .NET, developers can retrieve files attached to a OneNote document and we’ve put together a tutorial video that shows how. Watch complete video tutorial.

Updates about new Product Releases

Aspose.Total for .NET- a compilation of our latest .NET products.

Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.2.2-Maintenance release that improves performance and rendering.

Aspose.Words for .NET 14.8.0 - New reporting engine supports LINQ method syntax in templates and over 100 other enhancements and fixes.

Aspose.Pdf for .NET 9.7.0 - Set an output file’s dimensions when converting from PDF to HTML and other enhancements.

Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.8.0 - Manage VBA macros in presentations and a range of enhancements and fixes.

Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.5.0 - ntations and a range of enhancements and fixes.

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the first preview of a new universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit called DocuVieware.

DocuVieware displays and handles more than 90 image and document formats, including PDF and TIFF.
It offers hundreds of functionalities such as loading document from any source, multipage document navigation in continuous page view mode, annotations, pages browsing, smooth zooming, rotation, printing, text selection, content search and much more...

DocuVieware is a "Zero footprint" solution currently available as ASP.NET WebControl offering server side and JavaScript API.

This is a perfect solution to manage the documents lifecycle and to display complex formats within a web application.
It works on any device in any browser supporting HTML5 such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and IOS.

- Simple viewer: for a fast and instant display of files loaded from any source. You can choose the size of your thumbnails depending on your viewing purposes. The feature continuous page view mode is enabled for multipage documents.

- Customizable viewer: to build the viewer adapted to users’ needs, functionalities can be activated or deactivated. For instance the activation of the content search feature allows the user to find specific word(s) within their context. For longer documents it is possible to navigate chapter by chapter without having to scroll down each page, one after the other.

- Custom toolbar: styling options of the toolbar, widgets and icons are endless, to perfectly fit the design of the customer’s company.

- Blog integration: DocuVieware can be integrated in any kind of blog without installing any third party application. Everything is hosted in the cloud. No need to use a specific browser for your blog either as DocuVieware works with any HTML5 supporting browser.

The integration of this kit is made with GdPicture.NET 11 beta version. All the features and functionalities of GdPicture.NET can be easily integrated in DocuVieware with just a few lines of code.

DocuVieware will be commercially released on January 1st 2015, at the same time than GdPicture.NET 11.

About ORPALIS

ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", which is now a worldwide known and respected leader in imaging technologies. More than 12,000 developers based in over 70 countries include GdPicture components in their applications. www.orpalis.com / www.gdpicture.com

Stimulsoft Company, a leading developer of software products in the sphere of data processing and analysis, announced the release of a new version of reporting tools Stimulsoft Reports 2014.2. Among the most significant changes and improvements one should highlight optimization speed of rendering the report components, some optimization of component editors etc.

The developers of the company increased the speed of rendering the component Cross-tab by an average of 20-30%. They also optimized rendering time of charts with a large number of data and made processing of RichText components significantly faster.

To simplify the use of components, some of its properties have been removed from the Properties panel. Now they are available in the component editors. For example, the component Data band has no properties in the category Data. Only one remained - Data Source. This property invokes the editor which contains all other properties. As a result, the use of the component properties became much easier.

The new version of the reporting component StiMobileDesigner now has 18 themes. New themes make the designer for the Web more colorful and convenient. They also fulfill a practical function. Now the user does not need to adjust the appearance of his website to the report designer or vice versa. It is enough, to choose the theme, which looks similar to the appearance of the web-application.

One of the most important changes in the new version was a completely new chart editor in the report designer for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC (version HTML5). Its basic feature is the immediate previewing of all changes made during editing. Stimulsoft developers did their best to structure editor and make it intuitive. The structure contains a component category, dropdown lists, and other features which greatly simplify and speed up the process of creating charts.

"The new version of Stimulsoft Reports 2014.2 - this is more than a machine for working with reports, - says Andrew Savin, commercial director Stimulsoft. - We have conducted some research on the psychological perception of the software interface visual design. In the new version, we chose the color of forms, reworked them so that the user´s eyes found everything in its place. I think we´ve managed this."

Stimulsoft is a leading supplier of components for creating reports for the most popular development platforms. Stimulsoft´s customers include many large and small business organizations, government, educational, and non-profit institutions in more than 130 countries worldwide.

To get more information about the product, documentation, video tutorials, as well as a free evaluation copy, please visit the website of the company at http://www.stimulsoft.com

With features such as Custom User Dictionaries, As-You-Type & Dialog spell checking and a core spell checking class for strings - RapidSpell Web .NET is the perfect way to provide advanced spell checking features to your end users.

New features in version 4.4;

- Spell checker can now look for elements to check by their class rsw_spellable. This allows textboxes to be checked by inclusively specifying them rather than excluding them.
- Address some XSS issues with dialog spell checker.
- Fix IE11 not tabbing to other textboxes.
- Small bug fixes.

Keyoti's free RapidSpell Web .NET evaluation allows you to use all spell checking features for an unlimited amount of time on localhost servers. To deploy outside of localhost requires a purchased license.

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 3.0.0. With this release, we have removed the dependency on the ICE_JNIRegistry.dll library. We used the library to load font information on Windows systems only. We have removed it to increase consistency and simplicity for developers. This release also improves rendering features by fixing error messages, bugs and including advanced techniques of enhancements. Previously, in the Aspose.Diagram for Java API, JNI was used to load font information on Windows systems. It was not compatible with Java Development Kit 7. We received a few requests from our customers to remove this dependency and are pleased to tell our customers that we have. This new release delivers improvements in rendering of properties, missing shapes, incorrect layouts and displacements of shapes. This release comprises a number of key fixes that help us improve rendering. This version also brings fixes to reported error messages and include various other enhancements such as Action cells were not properly preview able in the Microsoft Office Visio 2013, fixed Shape cut off when saving to VDX format, Shape properties not added properly and various VSDX to PDF conversion issues. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

Action cell issue is fixed & now properly preview able in the MS Office Visio 2013.

Plan to remove ICE_JNIRegistry.dll as it's a unique dependency

Error is fixed oF ICE_JNIRegistry.dll binary using JDK 1.7

The shape was cutoff when saving to the VDX format is now fixed

Error when importing the Aspose.Diagram version 2.2.0 from Maven project

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure Java alternate for MS Visio Object Model. It is a standalone Visio Java library and does not depend on Microsoft Office Visio. It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files and they can open files & Add & manipulate the elements of the diagram, export Visio files to PDF, XML, HTML, images format, SVG & several other formats, Rotate a shape, Add a hyperlink to a Visio shape, protect diagram shape and many more. Aspose.Diagram can be used with any kind of application, whether it’s a Web Application or a Windows Desktop Application.

Devart announces the release of Review Assistant, v2.6. The new version is focused on the control over the process of code review. With the new Code Coverage Report, a user can quickly distinguish reviewed and unreviewed revisions in a repository.

Devart also added a number of features, including report customization capabilities and Visual Studio "14" CTP support. The update contains the following new features:

* Code Coverage Report

The new report type is designed to show the volume of project code, that is covered with code review. With the new report, user can:
- See, what revisions in repository were sent to review, and what were not
- Detect whether code was accepted, rejected, or remains uncompleted
- Navigate to the review, that was created for a particular revision
- Group data by authors, review statuses and by other columns
- Filter data to exclude minor revisions from report

* Mark revision as reviewed

To improve coordination of code review process, there were added special labels, that appear after adding revisions to review. Now, when creating a review and adding revisions to it, author can easily detect what revisions in repository were not reviewed.

* Report customization

Devart added additional options for report customization as well as for saving custom report settings. The feature is particularly useful when working with Code Coverage Report. Now user can:
- Set up data filters
- Select columns you want to include to report
- Tune up data grouping

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.2.2. It contains over 60 improvements, new features and bug fixes. Microsoft Excel application allows the user to save spreadsheets to different formats corresponding to the application versions such as Microsoft Excel version 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. This information is embedded in the spreadsheet, and can be used for version identification. Aspose.Cells for .NET now provides the means to get and set this information with the BuiltInDocumentPropertyCollection.Version property. Before the release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.2.2, retrieving the Worksheet instance from the Chart object was not possible. The latest version has made this possible by exposing the Worksheet property for the Chart class. In the new version, we have fixed a few exceptions that occurred while opening Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 file formats and converting Excel files to PDF format. We have also enhanced the Excel to PDF conversion process which seemed to hanged for spreadsheets with millions of rows. In this release, several important issues have been addressed. For example, issues around applying formatting to cells, manipulating built-in and custom styles, rendering and manipulating pivot tables, manipulating shapes and other drawing objects, rendering images from Excel worksheets, manipulating charts with formatting, rendering images files from charts, creating and manipulating list objects/tables and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. We have also fixed a few issues regarding Aspose.Cells formula calculation engine to make it more robust. We have also fixed a few issues in the web based Grid control regarding the paging and formatting features provided by Aspose.Cells for .NET. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

Conversion to PDF process seems to hang on a spreadsheet having 115996 rows

Error "Cannot edit a PivotTable in group edit mode"

Incorrect value calculated as compared to MS Excel

Causes the "Unreadable Content" message in MS Excel

Text in shape renders upside down when spreadsheet is converted to image

Shape overlapping the text when spreadsheet is rendered as image

Text Indent issue

Text in Text Box isn't rendered in the resultant PDF

Pivot table not retaining conditional formatting

An error appears about unreadable content.

Shape orientation is wrong when rendering to image

Wrong pdf export - text trimmed and extra space added

Character 'P' is clipped in the output PDF

Conditional Formatting arrows are smaller in size

White GridLines are rendered Black

Shape color changes when source file is opened and resaved

DataLabels' text is wrapped in the output image file format

Fourth chart on the page 10 does not look like Excel

Fourth chart on the page 8 does not look like Excel

Second chart on page 8 does not look like Excel

Extra line above the bar in the bar chart

The top number on the y axis for the top chart

Stacked bar chart multilevel category axis label alignment issue

Chart axis fill color does't apply when convert to image

Scatter Chart incorrectly adds extra major X axis marker

Workbook RefreshChartCache option does not take into consideration regional and language settings

Leading platform now supports multi nodes scaling on all middleware layers, automatic horizontal scaling of app servers, and a complete redesign of the Marketplace

Jelastic, Inc., the first company that combined Unlimited PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) in one solution, announced today a new Jelastic version 2.5 with support for multiple nodes of different stacks, automatic horizontal scaling of app servers, and Marketplace expansion. Last month in version 2.4, Node.js was introduced to enhance Jelastic's multi-language PaaS capabilities. The polyglot platform also supports popular programming languages, Java, PHP, Ruby and Python (.NET will be available soon).

Horizontal scaling of application servers has always been a distinguishing Jelastic feature, provided from the very beginning of its development. It allows users to increase/decrease the number of application servers their environment includes; in the case it is required due to the changes in an application's load.

Starting from this release, horizontal scaling of application servers can be achieved not just manually but also automatically, with the help of triggers. Simply set up the required trigger depending on the application's resource consumption and get your application servers scaled up and down, when it is required. Jelastic automatic horizontal and vertical scaling gives the best option for innovative and legacy applications, and makes Jelastic the most powerful PaaS in term of scalability/elasticity.

The current Jelastic release (2.5) provides the ability to scale not just the application servers, but all middleware stacks in an environment:
- Database
- Load Balancer
- Cache instance
- Elastic VPS

All newly added nodes are automatically distributed at different hardware nodes, ensuring even more reliability and high-availability.

"We are thrilled to announce a new version of Jelastic as it contains two of the most demanded features - adding multiple nodes of different middleware layers in one environment and automatic horizontal scaling of app servers. As a result, users can easily have several load balancers or databases together with multiple app servers and configure a highly available and reliable application in just a couple of clicks. Jelastic is the only cloud platform that fully automates the creation of complex environments for real enterprise applications that require clustering, high availability and scalability on different application layers," said Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic.

This release includes significant usability improvements of the Marketplace section at Jelastic's dashboard, offering more than two hundred applications, which can be automatically installed within an appropriate environment, in just one-click.

All of the applications are divided into corresponding categories, allowing a user to choose among the provided solutions. In addition, a search box has been added, aimed to facilitate the process of searching for a particular application among dozens of available ones. You can initiate the installation of several applications simultaneously. While installation is in progress, you can keep working within the dashboard with other functionality, without need to wait until the process is completed.

"I think the most exciting thing about version 2.5 is the multi node scaling feature, especially being able to add multiple database nodes. This will really help our customers to scale and make their applications more resilient," said Joakim Цhman, CEO at Elastx. "Our key success factor is obviously that Jelastic provides a platform that is embraced by our customers. At Elastx, we want to be known for providing excellent local technical support to our end users. By doing this, we keep an "ear to the ground" and the fact that Jelastic really listens to feedback from the community to improve the product is just fantastic."

Jelastic engineers have also added general UX improvements including environment aliases which can be seen by logging into the platform's dashboard.

"We are excited to share with our users the new multi node scaling feature which has been one of the most requested items since the launch. As a rapidly evolving platform made for developers, we are witnessing rapidly growing adoption of Jelastic PaaS from developers that are tired of self-managing and patching the hosting infrastructure currently on different IaaS vendors," said Lauri Kasti, CEO at Planeetta Internet.

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc. provides enterprise software that re-defines the economics of cloud deployment and management. Jelastic is the first company to deliver a Platform-as-Infrastructure solution, combining the ease of use (developer's productivity) of PaaS and the flexibility (agility) of IaaS within a single platform, for a fraction of the cost of existing virtualized environments. Jelastic is a venture-backed enterprise software company that enables enterprises, OEMs, integrators and hosting service providers to unleash the full potential of the cloud to generate superior ROI and efficiencies. For more information or to start a free, two-week trial, visit us at www.jelastic.com.

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.OCR for .NET 2.1.0. Aspose.OCR for .NET API has exposed IRecognizedPartInfo to that could be text or detected picture block. Textual blocks are represented by IRecognizedTextPartInfo holding useful information about the recognized text part. Each part has its own style, font, text size, color, language and other attributes. If the text consists of several parts that are written in different font styles or even in different languages then IRecognizedTextPartInfo will hold an item representing individual element. Recognized Text blocks can be retrieved using the OcrEngine.Text property only after performing the OCR operation. These blocks are stored as an array of IRecognizedPartInfo and contains information as discussed above along with the position and size of the block on the image. The IRecognizedPartInfo.Box property can be used to get the rectangular area where the detected block (with text or picture) is shown on the image. The Box property returns the coordinates starting from the upper left corner of the image.Last but not the least, we have made some improvements to the OcrEngine for performance considerations and accuracy. Moreover, we have fixed a few problem regarding the recognition of numbers, and cases that may cause OutOfMemory & IndexOutOfRange exceptions. As always we appreciate your feedback so if you ever have anything to tell us about this release or anything else, please head to the Aspose.OCR forum for a chat. This release includes plenty of new & improved features as listed below

Text blocks detection

Latest version cannot correctly perform OCR on the sample provided with Aspose Examples Dashboard is now corrected

Incorrect recognition of numbers is fixed

IRecognizedTextPartInfo issues are resolved and now return the found part type

Improve text and picture blocks processing algorithm

Incorrect results returned by OCR is now corrected

Improve time taken to extract the text from an image

Unable to perform OCR on Arial 32pt Text is now fixed

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.OCR for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.OCR for .NET is a character recognition component built to allow developers to add OCR functionality in their ASP .NET web applications, web services and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for controlling character recognition tasks. It helps developers to work with image (BMP, TIFF) files from within their own applications. It allows developers to extract text from images quickly & easily, saving time & effort involved in developing an OCR solution from scratch.